The Holocaust

By Mrs. Nobles


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Auschwitz-Birkenau (Nobles)


What is the Holocaust FAQs assignment?
What are the guidelines?
How will my FAQs be evaluated?
Can you show me an example of a FAQs project?
(Here is last year's wiki so you can see more of them)

Two helpful research links:
The United Holocaust Memorial Museum: the starting place for all of your Internet research
Easy Bib: your best friend when it comes to making a Works Cited page!


Section 1 Ideas:
  • Nazi symbol came from a church
  • Hitler wanted to be an art major, was homeless for 3 years, enlisted as a soldier at 25, involved in WWI
  • The many times he did not die (what Hitler thought of it)
  • Assassination attempts
  • Gift of public speaking
  • His actions after being elected -- what he pretended versus what he really intended
  • Non-aggression Act
  • Kept the plan for war a secret from the Germans
  • Hitler Youth
  • Hitler's illnesses? Was there something wrong?
  • Got married two days before suicide

Elie Wiesel:
  • 15 when went to the camps
  • Teacher who likes to help people
  • Spent time at Auschwitz and moved to Buchenwald
  • Really likes children
  • He regrets the most that he let his father die alone
  • Sent to an orphanage after liberation
  • Won the Nobel Peace Prize
  • Never hated anyone (his mission in life)
  • Met his sisters after the war in Paris
  • Doesn't know why he survived and is not comfortable with it
  • Married with a son (allowed his son to bring up his past)
  • Has written more than 50 books
  • Despite having books and these stories, you can never really know what it was like -- need to at least go there
  • In the camps, he learned that if you were a killer, you were meant to kill, otherwise, you were meant to die

Section 2 Ideas:
WWII
  • Hitler was a very good artist (watercolor)
  • Nazi symbol came from a church
  • Hitler's health issues: left arm numbness, hypochondriac, not mad ... abnormal?
  • Top of his class as a child, architecture, speaking, Iron Cross award (liked being a soldier)
  • Eva Braun
  • Wrote Mein Kampf
  • The German people: did not know he wanted war, Hitler blew off treaties, he did not want to go to war against Britain and France
  • Victims: Jewish, twins, homosexuals, Russians POW, Gypsies, political prisoners
Elie Wiesel:
  • Professor, activist, writer, won Nobel Peace Prize in 1986
  • Even though all this was done to him, he does not hate the people who did it
  • Did not want to survive but did anyway
  • Tutor, choir director, reporter throughout his life
  • Works with people
  • Post the war, went to an orphanage in France (liberation)
  • Relationship with dad in the camps
  • Reunited with both sisters
  • When someone does not have gratitude, something is missing
  • Did not know why he survived -- why would God choose him and not others
  • He lost belief in God during the war
  • He only has a few answers and even now has not figured everything out
  • Because he survived, he feels he owes it to work for people and help them
  • He did not let what happen to him destroy him
  • He is married and has a son